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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry about what you're going through. It sounds, though, as if you have pretty high expectations for him (nothing wrong with that at all) and so does he, but there is a definite mismatch between expectations and reality.  It may be that you need to back off and let him "take charge" of his own life, even though that may not take him in the short term in the direction he thinks he is going in.
 
As long as he's not doing anything self-destructive (drugs or flunking out or hanging out with the wrong crowd), he may just have to learn some lessons himself by making his own mistakes, i.e., not getting into Columbia or Duke or UVA and settling for community college and transferring or a gap year and reapplying. Sometimes there are lessons only life can teach you.[/quote]

Well, his expectations are for himself to get into Columbia or Duke, those are not my expectations. My expectations are for him to throw his trash out rather than leave it on the counter, brush his teeth, not be rude to his siblings, just kind of be civil in my house to his family members. I don't think my expectations for him are high or out of the ordinary at all. His reactions to anything we ask of him are over the top and dramatic. The smallest thing we ask, even showering turns into a huge explosion. He feels he knows everything and that we are really pretty stupid.[/quote]

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